Going into their series with Oregon State, the Oregon baseball team knew the results would say more about them as a team this season than any other series. The men had been successful, winning 15 of their last 16 games and sweeping the last three weekend series, but Oregon State was a measuring stick on [...]
Oregon took the first game of its three game series with Oregon State 3-0 behind a career night for pitcher Tommy Thorpe and some blistering offense to start the game. Oregon, notoriously slow starters at home, came ready to play Friday night. Brett Thomas hit a strong line drive up centerfield to lead off the [...]
No. 11 Oregon took the first game against Washington State, winning 5-3. With the win, Oregon is 35-11,17-5 in the Pac-12. Tommy Thorpe took the mound for Oregon, going six-and-a-third innings while giving up seven hits and three runs, two earned. Darrell Hunter came in in the seventh as relief, throwing the rest of the inning. [...]
The Ducks look to right the ship after Wednesday’s loss to Seattle with a series on the road against Washington State. No. 11 Oregon will play three games against WSU, the first coming Friday at 6 p.m. Tommy Thorpe (5-4, 2.73) will get the start for Oregon on Friday, facing lefty Joe Pistorese (4-3, 2.40) for WSU. [...]
The Ducks opened up their marquee series with Stanford with a 2-1 walk-off win Friday night courtesy a bases loaded single from Aaron Payne. “With two strikes I was just trying to put it in play hard,” Payne said before he took a celebratory shaving cream pie to the face. Payne acknowledged the Friday night win [...]
Oregon is coming off a stretch of four games where they were lucky to go 2-2. The first win avoided a sweep at the hands of UCLA while the second came against a Portland team that should have been easy competition. Oregon committed 11 errors in the games, including five against Portland, roughing up their [...]
No. 10 Oregon fell to No. 13 UCLA 1-0 Friday night at PK Park in the first of a three game series. With the loss Oregon falls to 28-9 overall, 12-4 in the Pac-12, still ahead of UCLA in the standings. Oregon got a solid seven innings behind starter Tommy Thorpe, who gave up a [...]
Coming into the season, Oregon knew it had a strong defensive team and a solid pitching staff centered around an ace starting pitcher, All-American Jake Reed, and closer, All-American Jimmie Sherfy. In the first game of the season on the road against Hawaii, Reed played six scoreless innings, giving up just four hits with seven [...]
PK Park has been a lonely place recently with the Ducks’ last eight games coming on the road, and George Horton and company are away on business once again this weekend, traveling to Berkeley for a three game set with the Bears. The Ducks enter on a two-game win streak after salvaging one of three [...]
Nine runs ended up being less than sufficient for Oregon in their second of three games against Arizona State as they fell 14-9 to the Sun Devils in Tempe, Ariz. With the loss, No. 11 Oregon is now 22-8 on the year. The bats awoke for Oregon, compiling 14 hits including four doubles. J.J. Altobelli [...]
Going into the season, Oregon pitching had defined itself as the top aspect of the team and had higher expectations than the offense, and probably even the defense. Jake Reed was coming off of a strong freshman year when he went 8-4 with 15 starts and a 2.92 ERA and took on the role of [...]
The No. 2 Vanderbilt travel to PK Park this weekend for a three-game set with No. 15 Oregon. The Commodores are the highest-ranked team to play at PK Park since No. 2 Arizona State played in Eugene in 2010. From the Ducks’ weekly release, here’s this weekend’s pitching probables: Friday Jake Reed (1-2, 4.32 ERA) [...]
The No.14 Ducks lost their second straight contest to No.17 Cal State Fullerton Saturday in a 5-2 game where, surprisingly, the Ducks finished with one more hit than the Titans. With the loss, the Ducks retain a 7-3 record while the Titans remain undefeated at 10-0. Contrasting with Friday’s game, the Titans went on a [...]
You wouldn’t know it from walking outside, but spring is almost here. Sure, Oregon winter will roll straight on through to July like it usually does, but, technically, spring exists. The only reminder of spring in Eugene may be George Horton and the No. 14 Ducks. Oregon is off to a 7-1 start with series wins [...]
Oregon got a strong 6-1 win behind freshman pitcher Cole Irvin in the third and final game of their series against Loyola Marymount to win the series 2-1 and improve to 6-1 on the year. Irvin, who was in command for the majority of the game, hit a rough patch in the fourth inning when [...]
Oregon (5-1), after a 6-1 Saturday win against Loyola Marymount (3-3), heads into a rubber match game against LMU. The Ducks will start LHP Cole Irvin (1-0) on the mount, who will face LMU’s Aaron Griffin (1-0). Irvin, a freshman, impressed in his Ducks debut in Hawaii, throwing seven innings. He gave up a run in [...]
Tommy Thorpe threw an absolute gem, holding Loyola Marymount to just four hits in seven shutout innings to earn his second win of the season as the Ducks beat LMU 6-1 to improve to 5-1 on the season. “I felt pretty good,” Thorpe said. “But it wasn’t just me, it was my defense behind me. [...]
Baseball season is upon Eugene again. The team that came so close to heading to Omaha last season will have another shot. With Jimmie Sherfy, J.J. Altobelli, and Jake Reed, there are many reasons to be excited about the season. Here are five: Techno Chicken At times last season, the Ducks seemed to be destined [...]
The Ducks (42-14, 19-8 Pac-12) beat Portland (25-24, 12-12 West Coast Conference) 2-1 Wednesday night in a makeup of the Ducks’ rained-out home opener despite Brett Thomas injuring his leg rounding second base.
